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	Prof. dr. A. (Amina) Helmi
Telephone	+31 50 363 4045
E-mail	A.Helmi@astro.rug.nl
Room	190
Address	Landleven 12 9747 AD Groningen, The Netherlands
Function	Adjunct Hoogleraar
Homepage	http://www.astro.rug.nl/~ahelmi
Research	Research interests: galaxy evolution and dynamics, with emphasis on what can be learnt from the nearby Universe, and in particular from our own Galaxy. The assembly process of a galaxy leaves imprints in the present-day spatial distribution, motions, ages and chemical abundances of its stars. The Milky Way is the only system (for now) for which we have direct access to this information, because only in our Galaxy and its nearby satellites can we measure the properties of millions of individual stars. The main goal of my research thus far has been to characterize these fossil signatures from a theoretical point of view, and to use observational data to recover those fossils and thereby reconstruct the formation history of our Galaxy. Besides Galactic archaeology, I am also interested on the problem of direct detection of dark-matter, and on the distribution of dark-matter in galaxies (both shape and density profile).
Teaching	Galaxies course: 2nd year bachelor
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